A mystery behind Botticelli's Birth of Venus may finally have been solved after hundreds of years. For centuries, art enthusiasts have puzzled over the distinctive squint visible in the Renaissance masterpiece. Theorists had long proposed Venus's misaligned eye was a symbol representing piety and beauty. But now, researchers from Queen Mary University of London have offered a different explanation. Their analysis suggests Simonetta Vespucci, who posed for the celebrated masterpiece, suffered fro